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Definition of Discursively
1. Adverb. In a rambling manner.
Definition of Discursively
1. Adverb. In a discursive manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Discursively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discursively
Literary usage of Discursively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Reminiscences of E. L. Blanchard by Edward L. Blanchard, Drinkwater Meadows (1891)
"2(Hh.—Go to Friday Knights, pleasant hour ; and walk home with Draper, discursively
discussing. Hear of Harley this night being paralyzed. 21s/. ..."
2. The Student's Handbook of Philosophy: Psychology by Benjamin Franklin Cocker (1882)
"It cannot proceed discursively (analyzing, abstracting, generalizing, inferring) ;
it must look upon, or behold, its objects face to face. ..."
3. Empirical Psychology: Or, The Human Mind as Given in Consciousness. For the by Laurens Perseus Hickok (1859)
"The whole process is a thinking in judgments discursively, and not a perceiving
of objects intuitively. Lastly, when the qualities of different substances ..."
4. Rational Psychology: Or, The Subjective Idea and the Objective Law of All by Laurens Perseus Hickok (1854)
"We can thus connect, ie think in the understanding, in no other possible manner
than discursively. The understanding is faculty only for connecting, ..."
5. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"That there is a God is a fact of knowledge ; for if it be said that we do not
know it intuitively, we know it at least discursively, since from the creation ..."
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